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CHARLES y HIMSELF AND'J.y S. JARDINE, or THE SAME PLACE.

vLettere Patent No. 71,30S, .dated November 26, 1867.

IMPROVED RAILWAY-SWITCH.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN:

Be it known that I, CHARLES WY. JONES, 'of the lcity of Philadelphia, inthe county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have inventeda new and usefulImprovement in Railroad Safety-Switches,` and I dohereby declare that thefollowing is a true and exact description'thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a partof this specification, `in which is showna plan vewof my invention.`

The object of my invention is to provide a railroad safety-switch, bymeans of which, and without using any broken rails on the Vmain track, Ican always switch the rails the required distance, and also guide atrain either way from the triple track.

To enable others skilled in the art to make andnis'e vroy invention, Iwill now proceed to describe its con-V struction and operation.

I fasten rails A and B together by means of cross-ties D D D, placedalternately and parallely betweerrthe f sleepers or blocks S S, on whichthe rails are ordinarily set and fastened. L its av lever, having itsfulerum in F on sleeper S S, and fastened on tie D D. S P is a spring,which will bring, rails Aand B to their former positions when theoperator ceases to act on lever L. Rail B is curved, and forms trackwitlrportion of `rail P R, as well as rail A forms track with portion ofrailP R Rails A and B are therefore unbroken rails the entire length oftheroad, even whenV they no longer form with track. The drawing showshow rails P R and P R respectively meet rails A and B. It is proper toremark that rails P R and P R arel both fastened as "7, usual on tosleepers S S S, where they are int-ended to remain rigidly in the someposition, and also that atV suitable dist-ance from the points whererails P R and P R, A and B meet, rails A and B are fastened to thesleeper, sayin S 1 and S 10. Now, a train coming up from the singletrack will be guided either way by springing thetwoirails A and B bymeans of lever L the required distance to match the points of railsQ,And again, if the train comes from the double track, the Harige of thewheel will always act as a-wedge, and set rails A B either way, whenthey receive the pressure, to their proper place against Arails P R andP R, thusmaking` a perfect safety-switch with continuous unbrokenrails.`

Having thus described my invention, what Iolaim as my invention, anddesire to secure by LettersPatent i of the United States,ris-

A safety-switch, composed of vibrating rails A and B, fastened togetherby means of mb'ile crosslties, D

` D, point rails P R and P R', lever L and spring S P, the wholecombined, constructed, and operated in the manner and for the purposeabove set forth and described.

CEAS. W. JONES. [1.; A]

Witnesses:

CHARLES I-I. EVANS, J. H. BAUDEN.

W. JONES, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGrNOR T O

